2010 – Venice; San Polo, San Marco and the Vaporetto pass
It was an early flight but it was really inexpensive. We arrived to the Venice airport at 7:30am but couldn’t check into the apartment until 2:15pm. We planned to leave …
2010 – Rome, Tivoli, Tarquinia and Centrale Montemartini
We’ve rented an apartment on the Via dei Gubbonari, a couple of short blocks from the Campo dei Fiori. It’s in a great location and there is a small terrace. …
2009 – Corfu or Kérkyra
We’re staying at the Grecotel Eva Palace overlooking Kommeno Bay and Corfu Town. It is one of the most beautiful views we’ve ever had from a hotel room terrace. We’ve …
2009 – Athens; the Acropolis Museum and a trip to Hydra
We’ve come back to Athens specifically to see the new Acropolis Museum, a project that has taken over 10 years to design and build. It was originally scheduled to open …
2009 – Tuscany visit with friends
We made this quick visit to Tuscany to visit with friends. Neighbors from San Francisco decided it would be a great experience to pack up the family of three young …
2009 – Andalucia; Granada, Ronda, Seville
There’s an old Spanish folktale about Roderic, the last Visigoth King of Spain before the Moor Invasion. According to the legend, there was a Secret Tower, hidden from all mankind, …
2009 – Valencia Spain, City of Arts and Sciences
Valencia is the 3rd largest city is Spain; over 800,000 people. It’s got beaches, an old historic city, a very large bull fighting ring, streets filled with high end shopping, …
2009 – Sicily; Siracusa, Noto, Ragusa, Etna, Catania, Taormina
Ah Sicilia; home the gods, a melting pot of civilizations, warm hospitality, amazing food and wine and really bad drivers. Homer referred to Sicily as Thrinakia in the Odyssey. This …
2009 – Naples, Herculaneum and Pompeii
Vesuvius blew on August 24, 79 AD. Pliny the younger saw it all from his boat and wrote that the explosion looked like a giant umbrella pine tree. Today the …
2009 – Rome; Vatican,Trastevere and the Ancient City
The Italian word for history is La Storia, the same word for the english us for a story. The truth is not in the facts, it’s in the telling. Here are …
2007 – Barcelona and the Pigeon Poop scam
Barcelona We’re very familiar with this city. We’ve been coming here since 1994 and every couple of years we come back if for no other reason than to see the …
2007 – Andalucia Spain
Cordoba The first thing we discovered out about Cordoba is what wasn’t there, primarily, the street signs. If you look very carefully on some of the streets you might find …
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